Installing FiraCode on Windows and Ubuntu | windows fira code font
Helloagain,JDhere.TodayImwritingabouthowtoinstallFiraCodeonWindowsandUbuntu.Thispostiscopyingandpastingsomecommandsontheconsole(atleastthatsthewayIdoit).Soletsgettoit.FiraCodeisamonospacedfontwithprogrammingligaturesdevelopedbyNikitaProkopov(tonskyonGitHub).FreemonospacedfontwithprogrammingligaturesFiraCode:freemonospacedfontwithprogrammingligaturesReadinEspañol|简体中文[1][2]ProblemProgrammersusealotofsymbols,oftenencodedwithseveralcharacters.Forthehumanbrain,sequenceslike->,<=or:=are...
Hello again, JD here. Today Im writing about how to install FiraCode on Windows and Ubuntu. This post is copying and pasting some commands on the console (at least thats the way I do it). So lets get to it.
FiraCode is a monospaced font with programming ligatures developed by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky on GitHub).
Free monospaced font with programming ligatures Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligaturesRead in Español | 简体中文[1][2]
ProblemProgrammers use a lot of symbols, often encoded with several characters. For the human brain, sequences like ->, <= or := are single logical tokens, even if they take two or three characters on the screen. Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one. Ideally, all programming languages should be designed with full-fledged Unicode symbols for oper...